Don't reinvent the wheel!
Learn from existing experiences that have already successfully tackled the same problems and barriers
Knowledge sharing
Exchange experiences in innovation procurement with a peer of your choice and adopt innovation procurement practices from others.
Funding
Get up to €30.000 to cover a wide range of Twinnings' activities such as travels, meetings, training sessions and much more to share experiences.
Collaboration
Find your Twinning partner by using the Matchmaking tool available in the Procure4Health platform and exchange experiences in innovation procurement.
Are you a healthcare procurer interested in participating in the Twinnings?
What activities are funded?
Twinnings aim to transfer knowledge and experience around the use of a product or service, process or methodology, strategy or a procurement business model.
- Knowledge transfer meetings
- Meetings with local stakeholders
- Organisational readiness of innovation procurement efforts
- Field visits
- Viability studies
- Dissemination events
- Travelling necessary for the twinning
Find out more funded activities in the request for twinning proposals!
How do I apply ?
Twinning applicants shall submit their application electronically via the Procure4Health online community platform.
- Applications are open until December 5th 2023, 17:00 pm
- An informative webinar was held on October 5th 2023, 11:00 am
- Documentation Kit is also available in the Procure4Health Platform
- Keep your eyes peeled and make sure to complete all required documents!
Find your partner
Still have questions?
Twinnings are a community (peer to peer) tool that enables exchange of knowledge on a particular topic by bringing together experienced players willing to pass on their experience to less experienced ones.
Participation in this request for twinning proposals is open on equal terms to public and private procurers, or groups of procuring organisations, operational in the provisioning of Health and social care established in a Member State of the European Union (or its Horizon-associated countries). This means that the Call for Twinnings is open for submissions from organizations that provide health or social care, and not open to solution providers.
Before submitting a proposal to the Procure4Health Twinnings call, applicants must make up a twinning partnership. To facilitate the identification of possible twinning partners, the Procure4Health online community platform, offers a tool for matchmaking.
An organisation may participate in more than one twinning, as long as the twinning activities are clearly different from each other.
All documents you are requested to submit for applying to the Call for Twinnings can be downloaded from this site (see above) as well as from the Proure4Health community platform.
For technical support on access, navigating and using the platform, please contact HCWH at afakih@hcwh.org.
Yes. In Procure4Health and as stated in the request for proposals, we consider both one-directional (Originator – Adopter) and bi-directional Twinnings, in the latter for partners to provide complementary knowledge and capacity for both partners to build relevant and applicable capacity. In summary, the consortia setup is flexible and more intending to build relevant capacity at one or more organisations, than being limited to very strictly defined relationships.
Yes. There are no restrictions on participants countries, they can be from the same or from different countries.
The only document that requires a signature is the “Twinning Call Admin Section – Annex 1”.
For the identification of the proposal make sure to identify both/all participating partners. For the legal form enter contact of the designated Lead partner/primary contact, as representing both/all partners of the proposal.
Enter contact of the designated Lead partner/primary contact, as representing both/all partners of the proposal.
There are not state a minimum duration of the Twinnings partnership. 6 months is the recommended (maximum) duration for the Twinnings activities. The period can be extended under certain circumstances.
Eligible organizations are highly dependent on how they are defined in the local/national context. They need to be procurers with an operational arm in health or social care provisioning.
Eligible costs are any cost related to the implementation of theTwinnings activities, being also (likely) direct costs such as travel for joint workshops/knowledge exchange.
It is expected that funded activities are not only staff but also costs resulting from joint activities, such as (for instance) travel or booking of facilities.
We recommend you register for the Procure4Health online community platform and find the matchmaking functionality within, for seeking partners for your Twinning. These can be national or international.
Don’t miss the opportunity to submit your questions before the 30th of November, 2023. You can do it by sending an email to hello@procure4health.eu